Here's one way to count
the number of commas in a cell:

=LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1,",",""))

Does that help?
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Regards,

Ron
Microsoft MVP (Excel)
(XL2003, Win XP)

"B~O~B" wrote in message
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Is there a way to count the number commas (,) in a cell?? I am doing
a text to column by Commas (,) then doing a Countif on the data to get
my number... Is there a was to count with doing the text to column????